The Minister responsible for Science Policy supervises eleven federal scientific
institutes. They consist of groups with the statute of "State body with
separate management". The Belgian Federal Science Policy Office represents the Minister for Science Policy
within the management commitees of those groups.

The main goal of the DIRACT-DIOVAR is to stimulate practical research that can help to solve problems that arise in entreprises and institutions (industrial and commercial firms, non-profit sector). DIRACT-DIOVAR proposes its methods, instruments and gives advice on concrete situations to anyone who wishes to improve conditions and quality of work. The institute was formerly known as IRNCT-NOVA.

Database query language research. The primary focus is on expressiveness of next generation query languages for object oriented, semistructured, and spatial databases as well as for data mining. University of Antwerp.